Examples of blandishment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The fateful lane change arose out of one mayor’s resistance to such blandishments. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 7 May 2020 At the same time, the softer architectural blandishments of postmodernism, promising the comforts of architectural history and tradition, were challenging modernists. — Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020 Her 2014 autobiography, A Fighting Chance, and recent stump speeches are festooned in pep club spirit and folksy blandishments, cloying bits of business that have attached themselves to her life story. — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2020 The region’s main powers, Australia and New Zealand, fear the creation of a mendicant state on their doorsteps, susceptible, in particular, to Chinese bribes and blandishments. — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 Having failed to win the Japanese around with blandishments, an increasingly desperate-looking Senard has reached for the stick. — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019 Companies abandoned facilities in long-term host communities to reap tax abatements and other blandishments brandished by other cities. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019 From their phones and screens, unemployed and underemployed young Saudis consume the West’s blandishments, as well as the sermons of jihadist preachers and the enticements of global terrorists. — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018 But the sweet glaze of memory, like the blandishment of false philosophy, still offers glints of something darker beneath the surface. — Jesse Green, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018 See More

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